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2022

Summer
  • Mai Yamamoto:  May 9, 2022 1:30-3:30, virtually   "Agnostic responses to reports and assessments". - Linguistics
Spring
  • Rachel Bonini: "Imagineered Imperial Tourism: Disney & U.S. Empire in Hawai‘i". - American Studies
  • Jiacheng Fan: "Tracing Shishi in Contemporary Chinese Historical Novels". - Comparative Literature

2021

Fall
  • Amy Hutchinson: "The Effect of Foreign Film on the Production and Perception of Non-Native Speech". - Linguistics
  • Jason Rose: "A Philosophical Analysis of the Play Concept". - Philosophy and Literature
Summer
  • Josh Weirick:  ""The Interface Between Syntax and Information Structure in Bilingual Language Acquisition: Evidence from the English Dative Alternation".  - Linguistics 
  • Lang Wang: "Aspirations and Ambivalences of the New Woman: French and Chinese   Women’s Press and Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century, 1900–1930". - Comparative Literature
Spring
  • Roderick Clare: "Onset Tensification in Contemporary Korean: Novel Pronunciations as the Continuation of Historical Phonological Pressures." - Linguistics
  • Pin-Hsi Chen: "An Exo-Skeletal Analysis of Complex-Path Motion Predicates in Taiwan Mandarin" - Linguistics
  • Meng Wang: "An Annotated Translation of Chapters 21-30 of the Late Ming Dynasty Novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan 醒世姻缘傳 (Marriage Destinies to Awaken the World)." - Comparative Literature